Top 28 Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.